The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"

The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.